peer review is not a requirement according to the rules of zoological
nomenclature.
Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
Chief Preparator
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History
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Denver, CO 80205
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>>> "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> 23/Jan/03 >>>
Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
><< (if the Czerkas et al. paper is accepted as valid taxonomic
>>literature: if
>not, it's _M. gui_) >>
>
>Oh, it's valid taxonomic literature all right. The _quality_ of the paper
>isn't an issue as far as nomenclatural acts go; all that's needed is the
>published recognition and naming of the new taxon.
I hate to be a fly in the ointment, but there is the matter of "peer
review".
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